Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEarly rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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A crier of green sauce.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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